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...week earlier, the council had agreed to require admissions officials to affirm in material sent to potential applicants that it does not discriminate on the basis of sexual preference in admissions. Admissions material already includes such a statement, but until now the director of admissions has been empowered to decide whether to include...
...policy, which the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life approved over-whelmingly in January, would force the College to affirm that it does not discriminate against gay students, a policy already on the books at nine of Harvard's 11 schools. It would not require Harvard to spend a penny--the University would merely add the statement to existing codes forbidding discrimination on the basis of race...
...council members greeted the GSA official presenting the policy with sharp questions about the need for Harvard to affirm explicity the nondiscrimination they considered so obvious. And, they noted, Harvard only lists the groups that federal law requires them to enumerate. Their explanation for this "policy:" If Harvard were to begin listing groups not mandated by law, people would assume it discriminated against all unlisted groups--like fat people, people who wear glasses, and other oppressed groups...
Harvard can deny GSA's request. That would be legal; it would not be right. The University should affirm its commitment to all students by adopting a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
...nobody knows how many years may be invalid. "Perhaps not null and void," Barnes says, "but probably voidable. That would sure mean a bunch of paper work down the tube." Like any good politician, Barnes is fighting paper work with paper work: he plans a resolution that would affirm those hundreds of "voidable" acts -and correctly pirouette the antisocial bears...